[/Luna POVi]

'What is that?' I thought in my mind as I looked at the crying... creature. This thing was like no other I have seen in my life.

Its much taller the me and even my sister, perhaps even taller then Discord (But he always changes height then and there, so it pretty much uncertain for his actual height) It wore nothing on it's...feet but it have some kind spikey metal just above them. It also wore grey leather belt armour that cover its knees to its hip with dirt marks all over the place, which must mean that it has been in the Everfree forest for a long time. It also seem to be wearing a green and red manica on it right arm like the minotaur berserkers worn when they were in a civil war that happen two thousand years ago in The Plain Lands of the south. But this looked much older, it was crafted in some strange metal that almost look like steel, but it didn't had the shin like steel would get in the sun. Instead, it was dim and the sunlight wasn't shining off it. It had leather strap that cover parts of the creature torso and must go all the way around the back of creature. On the ground, next to the sobbing creature was a large silver chain mace that had a huge spikey ball that is the size of one those sport game that our subjects play, what was it? Oh yes hoofball they call it. The handle of the chain mace had a iron grip with leather scraps that cover where this thing would be holding if it wasn't crying. But what got me puzzled was what it was wearing on it's head. A red and green kalkriese helmet, the same colour as its manica. It has weird marking on it, one of them had a strange language that says 'y rhai sy'n gweld, yn gwybod' on top of it helm where the feathers and way it would see threw the small holes in front of it line of sight. Like the manica it too must been made with the same metal because it didn't shin when the light was hitting on it. But the detail... Whoever or whatever made this must of known what they were doing because this is something that must of predate before me and my sister threw Lord Tirek into Tartarus AND that is when the royal guards was just founded.

I hopped down from the memory ward stone and walked slowly toward the creature carefully. It been a whole two minutes when it talked and it was still crying as if it lost something dear to it.

"Are you okay?" I asked softly, hopefully that it could answer without being threaten, for it was a bulky creature and it can easily reach for it's weapon and end my life here and now.

But silent was it answer...and nothing more.

"Can you understand me?" I tried again. It taken me a long time to get me from speaking old Equestrian to modern Equestrian. But likely, it was able to nod its head slowly up and down.

'Well... Its a start' I thought. Now we're getting somewhere.

"Okay then. You can please explain to me why you are in my secret garden?" I said with a hopeful smile. But I might have hit a nervous system inside of it because it stopped crying for a short time and looked straight at me. I couldn't see behind it's kalkriese helmet, but I can tell that it was not happy. It quickly grabbed it's mace on it's right hand and stand backed up to it full height. For a brief moment, I felted fear from this thing.

"THIS IS ROCK'S GARDEN!" It bellowed furiously but yet it was still crying through it's helmet. It lifted its weapon above its right side of it's helm and swung it down towards me. I quickly glow my horn and casted a teleport spell to teleported me a down the hill behind the attacking brute which its mace was now stuck in the ground. It began to looked around frantically to find me, it's eyes must be cloudy from all the crying it had been doing and its line of sight was all blurry. It turn it's head back to see me standing there with my horn glowing at it.

"THIS IS OUR GARDEN!" I haven't used my royal canterlot voice in sometime but it was still strong and powerful if not great like the years before. This however only made it use it's version of the voice.

"ROCK THE VANGUARD HAVEN'T SEEN YOU HERE IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS!" It roared loudly. Then this 'Rock' began to ran towards me to gain speed and jumped in the air with 'his' chain mace above his head again. But this time he was using both of his hands to grip to gain more power in his attack "AND SO THIS IS ROCK'S GARDEN!".

I jumped back into the air just as the mace hit the ground causing a mini shockwave as I flew up to the sky. I looked down to see a massive dint on where I was previously stood. Still crying Rock looked at me as I looked at him with a face of anger and a little curious. Why is this Rock so over protective to the garden and why would it so far as trying to kill me for it? Rock roared in fury as he started to have a furious fit by bashing the mace everywhere around him. But to my surprise, he somehow got his fit under control because in a fit you hit everything that is closes to you. But it seems that Rock had his control because he was bashing everything put from the flowers. Rock was beginning to slowly but surely calming down as his bashes and anger shout began to slow down. In a couple of seconds Rock stopped his angry fit and started to looked around at the destruction he had made. He then dropped his chin mace and fell down on his knees again. Rock was silenced for a moment but went back to crying again.

I was in shocked about how he was sure that this was his garden and also sad at how I treated him. The creature was broken down into tears and I started questioning him on why he was in the garden, Rock must of seen the memory stone of me and my sister's past and got all emotional about it.

I flew down ever so careful and silently as I can be and walked to Rock with sadness on my face for being so blunted to him.

"Okay then...Rock" I said carefully as to not make him blindly attack me again "I think we both got on the wrong hoof, so when you are ready to talk. Just let me, Luna know" And after I said that. I bravely sat down waiting to Rock to stopped crying and start to talk.

It token Rock an whole hour to stopped crying but luckily he stopped crying and was ready to talk. Before I was going to apologised, Rock spoke first.

"Rock the Vanguard wants to say Rock sorry" He said while he sniffed from his crying.

"No it should be I who must apologises to you" I replied with a smile on my face. "I was to blunted to realises that you were in a deep depression to be answering questions at the time"

Rock looked at me as he was about to protest but I mealy continue before we're both locked in the endless lope on who should be sorry.

"So" I began the new conversation "You name must me Rock the Venguards is that corrected?"

Rock tilted his head on the left "No" He bluntly answered "The name is Rock The Vanguard" He then lifted his shaking right hand out towards me. "Is nice to meet you... Just before Rock The Vanguard tried to hurt you that is"

I couldn't helped but giggled at that, but accepted his greeting by lifted my left hoof to his hand and rested on it.

I couldn't not notice that my hoof was dwarfed compare his large hand. It completed cover my hoof in his hand, but we shaken gently.

"Its a pleasure to meet you too" I replied happily that this was now getting smoothly that before. I think that Rock was smiley with me because he wasn't sniffing anymore. But before I down the big questions, I thought that I'll start with the small questions.

"So um..." I thought for a good question to asked him but the only thing that kept on coming was 'Why was in my garden?'. But luckily I thought of one "What were you doing before I arrived here?"

Rock let go of my hoof and pointed just above me.

"Resting" He answered as I looked backed at what he was pointed at.

There was two tall oak trees that was bended as if somepony pushed to make it looked like they were flat so you can rested on it. That somepony must of been Rock. The leafs on were supposed to be on top of the trees were not there. Instead it was placed in the middle of the two trees that had to been Rock's cover. My mouth was open wide. Oak trees are one of the toughest trees in the Everfree forest and Rock bended two of them, striped them of their leafs and made it his bed. I looked backed at Rock with my mouth still open. Rock notice this and helped me shut it with his right hand.

"How long did that took?" I asked surprised by the fact that I had just seen. Rock looked down to his left hand and started to count with his fingers as he tried to work it all out.

"Rock think about..." He shake his had side by side as he was trying to get the right answer. "Four minutes"

Once again, my mouth was wide open. It taken Rock to bend four minutes to make two oak trees into his own bed to sleep and rest on. Before I could asked him how he gotten his strength from, he asked me a question of his own.

"What is that on you?" Rock said as he pointed down at my... flank. I looked down to where he was pointing at and realise that he was pointing at my cutie mark.

"That is my cutie mark" I sighed lightly.

"What's that?" Rock again tilted his head as he asked the question.

"It what tells a pony what talent he or she has got" I answered as I pointed at my mark of the moon. "My means that I am the Princess of the night"

"So you're a star watcher?" Rock asked while he looked at the sky as if he was looked to see if it was night time already.

"No" I giggled as to how silly that sound. "What I do is-"

"An night-gazer?" Rock interrupted, looking back at me as if to see if was correct. But sadly he was wrong.

"What...No" I answered in confusion. That sound even sillier then star watcher.

"Oh" Rock shouted while he clicked his fingers "You're a candlestick maker?"

I decided to just give him the fact before he gets a dozen of ideas.

"I move the moon and create the night sky while protecting ponies dreams from nightmares." I answered with pride of my role and to make Rock stop guessing at to what my cutie mark means.

Rock felled into silence. I was not sure if he was surprised or shocked at what I just told to him, but his silence was long and disrupting.  But soon looked up at the sky again and gasped in disbelieve at the knowledge he just learned.

"You move the moon?" He talked to himself. I didn't know this as I just nodded in agreement. He then looked at me again as he started to stand up to his full height. As he did this so did I in turn. "You're the one that control moony?" He asked me which I merely nodded again.  I couldn't see his face behind his helmet but I felted that he was sad. But from what? Before I can asked, Rock began to yawn and straighten his arms in the sky. I looked at the sky and saw that my sister's sun was going down. I had so many questions to asked, but I just have to go back to the palace and rise the moon before my sister started to worried about me not returning back home.

"Well" Rock yawned as he reached down to the ground and picked up his mace with his right hand. He then stood there for a few seconds staring me. "Rock the Vanguard is sleepily and Rock must rest"

"Indeed" I said with a smile. "Will you be here when I come back tomorrow?" I asked, hoping that he would replied with...

"Yes" Rock answered. My smile got a little bit wider with the knowledge that he'll be here when I return. Rock walked past me as he was headed to his tree-bed. I just need to asked him one more question before I go.

"Rock?" I talked to Rock with a carful tone, he merely stopped and turned his head to the side. He made a soft grunt which made me continued on my question "What was it that you were crying about?"

Silence. There was silence as he turned his head back in front of him and lower his head as if he was thinking about answering my question. But then he said something I thought he won't ever say.

"Why don't you come back when the sun is up above the sky" Rock answered in what I could tell was a friendly tone in his voice "Then Rock will tell moony" He then continued his walk toward the tree-bed.

'He gave me an nickname' I thought in my mind in surprised as he hopped on the his bed and rolled on his side with his mace still in his hands as if it was a teddy bear. This scene just made a smile on my face on how a enormous he was, but have a soft heart inside of him.

I watched him for a moment before I opened my wings and flew back toward the palace to return to my duty. As a flew high, I couldn't help but looked backed at the garden and Rock to seen the place and him sleeping peacefully. This made a warm feeling in my heart at to realize that Rock must of looked after the garden when I wasn't here in the past seven years.

However as I looked at the scene I left behind. Something latched onto me. I was taken by surprised as I was felled down from the sky. I looked at what has gotten a hold on me.

It was an rope that was made of silver metal that was thin but strong that I couldn't shaken out of. As I was falling, I tried to casted a teleport spell. But the mental rope began to glow dark purple and green. The very colour of dark magic and a very powerful magic to stopped me from casting my spell, so I had to prepared for a cash landing.

I hit the ground hard on my right side, I hit the ground so hard that I heard two very loud cracks and bounded twice on the hard floor. I tried to get up but I horridly found that my right back leg and my right wing had been broken from the fell. I tired to get up but my injuries and the dark magic rope held me down. Who did this and why?

Suddenly I heard a sinister growly laughter from somewhere in the forest. I was about to say 'who's there' but there was no need.

For it decided to come out from behind a large moss stone that was in front of me.

I heard a hiss like a snake come from the moss stone. Then I saw a long, Reptile like claw that grabbed  the left side of the stone. The colour of the claw was a dim purple with yellow nails and striped. Then it pulled itself to reviled a reptilian torso with the same colours as it's hand and now coming out of the shadow it's arm that had what looked like scrap of iron armour. I was going to looked at its head but then I saw it's lower body part. Instead of reptilian legs like I thought it would had, it had a lower body of a snake. It still had the same colours as the other part of its body, but it had more of the scraps of iron armour that was covering almost all of its back of it snake body and the back of it torso with spikes. It had in it's left claw was a ebony short sword that had the handle as a cobra and the blade crude and with sharp spikes that goes all the way to the top of the silver blade. I then looked at it face and whelped in fright. It's head had a evil smile that showed its many rows of sharp, white, carnivorous teeth. It had a long snout like a crocodile and two spikes on top of it's head. It's eyes as if excepted was reptilian with the colour of light crimson in it. It also had a strange marking that looked like an eagle claw with a orb in the eagle's claw on top of it's forehead. I looked at it whole body with full terror as I realize what the monster was. I heard of them in a continent far up to the north of Equestria and be on the Clear Sea, but I thought they were only legends... But I was proven wrong. This thing was a...

Naga.

It slivered towards be while it chuckled to itself.

"Looky what we got here" Its growly and cold voice gave me shiver down my spine. "And here I though it was going to take forever to catch a meal but it seen that I'll be dining with the royalty tonight" It stopped talking to me when it was a few feet away from me. I was scared be on believe. It did one more laugh before it said in a deep and dark voice.

"The Master will be pleases"

It lifted it blade in the air to bring my death quickly. I tired again to once more cast a spell and getting up. But this only made me more weaker. I closed my eyes and imagine all the thing I did with my life. I remembered my mother and farther, I remembered my sister, I remembered being released by my curse of Nightmare Moon by the Elements of Harmony and I remembered all the fun and enjoyable moments in my life before my dearth.

Instead of death. I heard a gasp of fear and the sliver of Naga slivered back. Then a mini earthquake hitting near by and a deep roar. I opened my eyes to see...

Rock the Vanguard.

Rock was standing above me with his chin mace in front of him with has made a huge hole in the ground. The Naga had the face of pure fear and was holding It's short sword in front of it shaking furiously. Rock's helmet looked down to me to see if I was hurt by it. He the looked at the Naga which I can only guess was a face of rage, because he lifted his mace with his manica armoured hand and swung it to his side with the sound of whooshes next to him.

"YOU DARE TRY AND KILL ROCK THE VANGUARD'S FRIEND!?" Rock bellowed at the Naga "ROCK THE VANGUARD WILL HAVE YOUR BLOOD!!"

And after he bellowed and shouted at his newly opponent, he charged straight toward it with a battle cry that echo the whole forest.